Comments on: Paranoid Android

Paranoid Android

parallax7d — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:33:37 -0800

By: Pseudoephedrine

Pseudoephedrine — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:42:27 -0800

The Brad Mehldau cover off of his Live in Tokyo CD, is absolutely wonderful. It's one of my favourite pieces of contemporary jazz piano, actually. He manages to take the already very spare progressions of Paranoid Android and strip them down even further, using them as a point he can depart and return to throughout the piece as he improvises. It works wonderfully, though it's much longer than the original if that's a concern.

By: mr.marx

mr.marx — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:51:16 -0800

Mehldau has also made excellent interpretations of "Exit Music" and "Knives Out".

By: hototogisu

hototogisu — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:54:20 -0800

Mehldau has a couple versions of "Paranoid Android" floating around...

By: kenko

kenko — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:57:21 -0800

There's also that pianist who specializes in Chopin, wossname, who released an album called True Love Waits of Radiohead covers arranged for solo piano.

By: kenko

kenko — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 16:57:40 -0800

Christopher O'Riley.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:00:42 -0800

I bid you all to listen to the original Radiohead version, then immediatley listen to the version in the second link.

By: JPowers

JPowers — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:00:51 -0800

Don't forget Mr. Mayer.

By: bardic

bardic — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:20:25 -0800

Brad Mehldau is the new George Winston.

By: Wingy

Wingy — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:37:33 -0800

From the url I assumed that the second link would be a cover by Ben Folds. I was very much mistaken... and thoroughly amused.

By: Popular Ethics

Popular Ethics — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:38:44 -0800

The second link is bad enough to be awesome. Nice post parallax7d.

By: goodnewsfortheinsane

goodnewsfortheinsane — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:42:05 -0800

Christopher O'Reilly discussed here.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:47:11 -0800

O'reilly put out a second radiohead piano album, kenko. it's called Hold Me To This, and it features a cover of Paranoid Android.

By: carsonb

carsonb — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:53:10 -0800

I got into a discussion the other day by the trash compactor about whether Radiohead was comparable to the Talking Heads from an "influential art-rock band of their respective decades" perspective. there was contention over which was a better affect: David Byrne's spastic shoulders vs. Thom Yorke's lazy eye.

By: mrgrimm

mrgrimm — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:23:26 -0800

The first link is kinda fun, but not knock-my-socks off good. Btw, it's not a marching band (which would have been cooler). That second link is definitely terrible, but it gets a little funnier as it goes. I couldn't get the .rams to work with real alternative ("Cannot render the file."). Wish I could.

By: Mach5

Mach5 — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:51:03 -0800

carsonb: defiantly Thom Yorks eye. It's looking in fear and horror at the infinite corporate greed taking over world!

By: emelenjr

emelenjr — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:24:43 -0800

That UMASS band sounds all right, but they've got nothing on the Devil's Workshop Big Band. ITMS link.

By: SPrintF

SPrintF — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:47:29 -0800

And not one word about poor, old Marvin.

By: parallax7d

parallax7d — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 19:58:39 -0800

I read somewhere that the line right before Marvin was introduced is "OK computer". I'm gonna whip out my copy, but don't know where to start looking.

By: josephtate

josephtate — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:42:58 -0800

Rodeohead (warning: the mp3 will start playing as soon as the page starts loading).

By: Jesse H Christ

Jesse H Christ — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 22:14:47 -0800

"...Unborn Chicken voices in my head What's that.... What is that? That is just disgusting--"

By: Foaf

Foaf — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:14:33 -0800

It's amazing how that second link still captures the same spirit of the original. O for awsome.

By: hypersloth

hypersloth — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:45:23 -0800

great stuff thanks

By: Civil_Disobedient

Civil_Disobedient — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 04:25:35 -0800

"Ow! Bit the recorder. Fuck."

By: toothgnip

toothgnip — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:08:25 -0800

Life. Don't talk to me about life.

By: Devils Slide

Devils Slide — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:56:08 -0800

That Rodeohead medley beats em all. I got into a discussion the other day by the trash compactor about whether Radiohead was comparable to the Talking Heads from an "influential art-rock band of their respective decades" perspective. there was contention over which was a better affect: David Byrne's spastic shoulders vs. Thom Yorke's lazy eye. Well, Radiohead are named after a Talking Heads song, so they're definitely comparable to TH. As for the better effect, I'd have to go with Thom Yorke's eye. And he even has Byrne beat in the spastic dancing department.

By: funambulist

funambulist — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:11:45 -0800

Another Mehldau lover here. That whole Live in Tokyo is fantastic. You can listen to the whole thing on the official site ("Album Preview").

By: funambulist

funambulist — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 02:19:44 -0800

(...sorry, not the whole thing, only approx. half of it.)

By: carsonb

carsonb — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 23:22:34 -0800

I read somewhere that the line right before Marvin was introduced is "OK computer". "Look, Zaphod," she said, patting his arm, "don't worry about the aliens. They're just a couple of guys, I expect. I'll send the robot down to get them and bring them up here. Hey, Marvin!" In the corner, the robot's head swung up sharply, but then wobbled about imperceptibly. It pulled itself up to its feet as if it was about five pounds heavier than it actually was, and made what an outside observer would have thought was a heroic effort to cross the room. It stopped in front of Trillian and seemed to stare through her left shoulder. "I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed," it said. Its voice was low and hopeless. Chapter 11, pgs 90-1 in my mass market movie tie-in edition